Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The mortgage servicing landscape has long been a crucible of change, where today’s decisions lay the groundwork for the industry’s future. By bringing together decision-making executives from across the nation, the NMSA drives the conversation on shaping the American housing industry for the benefit of homeowners.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2022

You can see why I have been on team higher mortgage rates for some time now because we don’t have any other way to get off this madness. To get the housing market to be sane and normal again, we need inventory to get back in a range between 1.52 – 1.93 even for rental housing. months and down from 2.0

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

Although there is no doubt that business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement are going to impact how real estate industry professionals operate, economists aren’t too sure they’ll have much bearing on the housing market. “I

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In this HousingWire Executive Conversation, Tom Davis, Chief Sales Officer at Deephaven , discusses the opportunities in the non-QM investor loan space as we head into the new year. Tom Davis: Investor transactions are still close to 28% of the overall purchase market. Many investors prefer to close in the name of an LLC.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

The days on market are back to a teenager level in the existing home sales market, which means I can officially say we are back to a savagely unhealthy housing market! Nothing good happens in the housing market when the days on market are at a teenager level or lower. million in May.

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Housing Wire

MAY 18, 2023

Just when I thought days on market were returning to normal, that number for existing homes fell back down to 22 days. If the days on the market are at a teenager level or even lower, it’s never a good sign for the housing market. housing market inventory channels have changed due to how the U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“The FOMC cut rates by another 25 basis points at its November meeting, noting that risks to its inflation and employment goals are ‘roughly in balance,’” says Mike Fratantoni, senior vice president and chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), in a statement. As results rolled in, longer-term rates jumped higher.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

Now that we are almost in July, we can safely say the premise that once mortgage rates hit 4%, the mass panic selling of American homeowners who need to get out at all costs, driving total inventory up in the millions, hasn’t happened. Now that mortgage rates have risen, demand is getting hit, while we are still showing 14.8%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

housing market this year? If we stick to the facts, however, we can glean a few important take-homes as to what risks the housing market faces for 2021 and beyond. If we stick to the facts, however, we can glean a few important take-homes as to what risks the housing market faces for 2021 and beyond.

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Housing Wire

MAY 19, 2022

million , with double-digit home-price growth driving a housing market that is still savagely unhealthy. However, this year has seen one big game-changer: the 10-year yield finally cracked over 1.94%, which drove mortgage rates over 4%. We are not taking the unhealthy housing market theme off this marketplace.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Homebuyers can purchase properties in full with cash, eliminating the need for a mortgage application. Redfin attributes the decline in cash purchases to a smaller share of real estate investors in the marketplace. ” In 2021, more than 1 million cash purchases hit the housing market. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Describing the modern-day mortgage market as challenging would be an understatement, to say the least. Mortgage interest rates have steadily ramped up throughout 2024. The average rate throughout 2024 for 30-year fixed mortgages was 6.72% higher than it was during the 2008 market crash.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2022

One of the biggest questions in real estate right now is how rising interest rates will impact the housing market. More expensive money also meant fewer investors holding homes so inventory would climb too. Fortunately we have 2018 as a guide to understand the impact of rising interest rates on the housing market in 2022.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2022

This data line lags the current housing market as it’s a few months old. Imagine if mortgage rates didn’t rise this year. We are still showing double-digit home-price growth trends in the recent data as it takes time for higher mortgage rates to really increase supply back to normal levels. million or higher.

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Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2024

Real estate investor sentiment rose 16% from the prior quarter and 60% of surveyed investors view the current housing market more favorably than a year ago. ” In terms of forward-looking sentiments, 61% of respondents expect the market to continue improving, compared to 14% who expect it to decline. .

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2022

However, the real story of 2022 is that the savagely unhealthy housing market continues as inventory is still lower than last year, sending home prices growth into double digits again. housing market; the 10-year is above 1.94%, something that didn’t happen in 2020 or 2021. million to 4.98 million in January 2019.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Mortgage rates declined for the third consecutive week, sparking hope for a good homebuyers’ spring season. But while rates have dropped, the housing market has continued to be challenged by low inventory levels. Despite the week-over-week decline, mortgage rates started to tick up again over the last few days.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Bringing together some of the top economists and researchers in housing, the event will provide an in-depth look at the top predictions for this year, along with a roundtable discussion on how these insights apply to your business. In addition, more for-sale inventory will likely be available on the market.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 16, 2024

housing market may have slowed during the second quarter of the year, investors did not take their foot off the gas. The number of home purchases by investors rose 3.4% during the same period, which Redfin attributed to elevated mortgage rates and home prices. Although the U.S. In comparison, total U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 19, 2022

real estate investors and affordable homes. The June housing starts data beat estimates with positive revisions, however, this doesn’t change the housing market recession call that I made last month. As you can see, the entire housing marketplace is much different from what we experienced in 2008.

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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2024

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that while institutional investors may have contributed to rising home prices since 2009, the actual impact they have had on homeownership opportunities is more difficult to assess.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2023

It’s been a brutal 15-month period for the housing market since the Federal Reserve began escalating its benchmark interest rate in March 2022 to combat rising inflation. Since then, the Fed has bumped rates 10 times, effectively putting the brakes on what had been a hot housing market. in 2023, according to Fed staff.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Recent market trends — including an improvement in mortgage rates, housing affordability and potential refinance opportunities — suggest positive signs for the real estate market this year, according to February’s Mortgage Monitor report from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Mortgage rates held at 6.71% as of Jan.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 16, 2024

Investor activity in the U.S. housing market saw a significant uptick in the second quarter of 2024, with purchases rising 3.4% Investors bought approximately one out of every six homes sold in the quarter, representing $43 billion in transactions, marking a 13.7% increase from a year earlier. year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Federal Reserve ‘s effort to temper inflation has cooled the housing market that remains subdued with mortgage rates north of 7%. this week, Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan believes that mortgage rates will stay elevated before the Fed makes further rate cuts. Kim: Spreads in the mortgage space are wide.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2023

Roughly 80% of real estate investors surveyed are selling single-family homes at or above asking price after fully renovating the properties to make them habitable, according to a report from real estate marketplace New Western. Other notable markets that grew in the same period included popular Sunbelt investor havens Atlanta and Dallas.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

One slice of the single-family home market that has gained traction over the past year in a topsy-turvy housing landscape is the build-for-rent sector — or BFR. This will be particularly true as mortgage interest rates remain elevated and increase. Thus, the [single-family] BFR market will expand in the quarters ahead.”.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Meanwhile, sellers who locked in a record-low mortgage rate of 3% or less during the pandemic have been reluctant to sell, limiting supply further and leaving fewer options for would-be buyers. This is an interesting statistic to watch because foreign investors face different barriers to buying than their domestic counterparts.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2024

Still, despite the gloomy news of late for SFR and fix-and-flip investors, some industry experts see better fortunes ahead in 2024 for both sectors. “We We didn’t call it a bear market, but we did call it a lack of liquidity, which I think is more accurate,” said L.D. million households formed each year.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last June, the Federal Reserve said it wanted a housing reset , which meant it wanted higher mortgage rates to destroy the housing market. Today, the Federal Reserve achieved its primary goal; the days on the market are now above 30 days, which was the most important data line to get housing back to somewhat normal.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2022

Like many loan officers, Dicker was working nights and weekends, banging out refinancings and purchase mortgages at record-low rates for clients. About 40% of his business came from refis in the summer of 2021 even when his focus was on purchase mortgages his entire career. The Mortgage Bankers Association projects that of $2.4

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Mortgage rates continued their downward trajectory this week as the 10-year Treasury yield dropped below 4.2% The 30-year, fixed mortgage rate averaged 7.03% for the week ending Dec. 7, according to Freddie Mac ‘s Primary Mortgage Market Survey. for the first time since September, according to new data from Freddie Mac.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Did today’s existing home sales report give us a playbook for housing in 2024? I would argue yes, and the housing market today looks a lot like what we saw in late 2022. In 2023, we had one big bounce in sales and then sales trended lower all year long as mortgage rates went from 6% to 8%. million units, down 1.7%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2024

Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through during the pandemic. “At

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Despite mass layoffs in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation, mortgage professionals still see opportunities in the market. Others allocated resources into digital marketing (31.1%), automation technology (26.7%) and market data (19.3%). in events to garner business. were from the Northeast 16.3%

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Housing Wire

APRIL 27, 2023

Executives at both Stewart Information Services and First American Financial bemoaned the challenging housing market environment as they discussed their respective firms’ first quarter 2023 earnings with investors Thursday morning. According to DeGiorgio, mortgage rates would have to drop well below 5.0%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2024

Single-family rental (SFR) investors are worried about the rising cost of home insurance, but the majority expect to buy more properties in the next year as mortgage rates cool and home-price growth subsides. Louis led the nation’s 20 largest markets for a second month in a row at 6.2%

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